PONTIUS PILATE STONE
One of the actual pipes of stone from the aqueduct built by Pontius Pilate in the Holy Land is now in London. This aqueduct was constructed to bring pure wmter from springs near Hebron to Jerusalem, and Josephus, the Jewish historian, who must often have drunk this water, has left on record that Pilate confiscated money in the Temple Treasury for this purpose. The stone is about a yard square and has a channel 15in wide through the centre; at one end is a flange and at the other a socket into which the flange of the next stone fitted. The stone is on view at the interesting Palestine Exhibition in Turton street, London.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23491, 4 May 1938, Page 15
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117PONTIUS PILATE STONE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23491, 4 May 1938, Page 15
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